Tom, > Indeed. If the Solaris folk feel that getupeercred() is insecure, > they had better explain why their kernel is that broken. This is > entirely unrelated to the known shortcomings of the "ident" IP > protocol.
The Solaris security & kernel folks do, actually. However, there's no question that TRUST is inherently insecure, and that's what people are going to use if they can't get IDENT to work. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches
